'Nothing Justifies Kicking Greece out of the Euro Zone'
I am not making this up; that is the very headline at Der Spiegel!
Merkel has rejected a debate about ejecting Greece from the euro zone. "It is about a quick reaction in favor of the euro's stability as a whole. Everything else is a distraction."
In Monday's newspapers, German commentators are divided over whether the country's taxpayers should be forking out for the debts of other European nations and whether it may be time to contemplate kicking Greece out of the euro zone.
One of the characteristics of getting old is, I suppose, we think about the lives we had. And, all of a sudden pop up in our minds events we didn't even know had registered in our memories.
I had one of those this evening. I have no idea what led to me thinking about Melina Mercouri's visit to India--this was when I was back in India, working on my undergrad degree. I wonder if her trip registered in my memory because it was at then that I had read "Zorba the Greek". Anyway, I recall thinking that Mercouri as a minister was so much like the politicians in Tamil Nadu, who had extensive movie connections. The chief minister at that time, MGR, was a big time movie star before he became a full-time politician. For that matter, the party to which he belonged for the longest time before breaking away, the DMK, was founded and led by Annadurai and Karunanidhi--both screenplay writers ....
Ok, back to Melina Mercouri. So, thanks to YouTube I pulled up the famous song from Never on Sunday, which, of course, I heard for the first time during her visit to India. Here is the clip:
After that, I thought I should revisit Zorba the Greek; here is that famous dance scene that is also the movie ending
